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Today we will try to know how much a robot can produce per year if we want that he generates profit for us.
Well, we have to read careafully some main figures about robots in the world.
"International Robot Exhibition. Tokyo, December 2007"
ABB Speech. Anders Jonsson. Executive vicepresident Head of Robotic Division.http://www.irex2007.jp/ENG/pdf/ABB_e.pdf Global Robotics Division.
Year: . . . . . . . . . . . R+D Expenses (b$): EBIT(b$) =====================================
2004. . . . . . . . . . . .. . 971. . . . .. . . . . . . . 450
2005. . . . . . . . . . . . . 966 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
2006. . . . . . . . . . . 1.066. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.100
6,000 researchers and developers worldwide. Sales in robotics products 1st Qt to 3rd Qt 2007: 1,2 b$
We will asume that researching personal cost is included in R+D expenses.
4,500 employees in over 50 countries. 150,000 robots installed worldwide.
Well, we can see...
(3.0b$ R+D expenses in three years + 4,500 employees * 75,000 $/year·employed*3 year, including all costs)=4,0125 b$
4,0125 b$ / 150.000 robots=26,750 $ per robot installed.
Customize and maintaining in 8 years, as 15% of acquisition price per year,...
(26,750*0.15)*8+26,750=aprox. 58,900 $ per robot total cost in 8 years. Its annual cost must be at least as he can produce to us (marginal cost). Thus...
58,900/ 8 = 7,362.5$ per year.
We think it is not expensive, in global average, to improve our industrial trends with robots. So Koji Toshima from Yaslawa Electric Corporation said in his speech "future robots that co-exist and co-prosper with humans". http://www.irex2007.jp/ENG/pdf/ABB_e.pdf
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